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Supercharge Your Camera CHDK Firmware

Supercharge Your Camera CHDK Firmware
From Wired How-To Wiki An example of the amazing high-speed captures made possible by CHDK firmware. Photo by Keoeeit Digital cameras have powers beyond what is immediately available to the user. CHDK, the Canon Hacker's Development Kit, is an open-source software project that can be loaded on cameras using Canon's DIGIC II or DIGIC III firmware platforms. CHDK does not replace the existing firmware on your Canon, so the process is completely reversible. What You'll Need A compatible camera (see a list) An SD memory card An SD card reader (but see possible workarounds below) How To Install It It's best to start with a blank SD card, so if there are pictures on your card, remove them. There are numerous incarnations of the CHDK software, different builds incorporating different features. Determine which camera model you own, by looking at the model number on the camera. Tip: Note that the "Ixus" designation is European: what Americans call the Canon SD800, Europeans call the Ixus 850. 1.

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El “instante decisivo” de Henri Cartier-Bresson « Oscar en Fotos Por Óscar Colorado Nates* “Suspendido en el tiempo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, esperaba emboscado.” [1] De todos los conceptos fotográficos, seguramente no existe ninguno más famoso que el célebre “instante decisivo” acuñado por Henri Cartier-Bresson. Madrid, 1933. Génesis de un concepto No sobra recordar que Cartier-Bresson es considerado uno de los grandes maestros de la historia fotográfica. En la muestra Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century del MoMA[3] fue señalado como el fotógrafo más importante del siglo XX. Para comprender cómo nace la noción del instante decisivo es necesario conocer de dónde proviene el fotógrafo galo. A pesar de haber nacido en el seno de una familia acomodada, Henri Cartier-Bresson decidió decantarse por una azarosa vida de fotógrafo. El modernismo de la década de 1930 fue de gran importancia para la fotografía, que se vio influida por muchos de los “ismos” del momento: constructivismo, dadaísmo, cubismo, futurismo, surrealismo, etcétera. Juvisy, Francia. 1938.

Chris Jordan - Running the Numbers Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. ~cj, Seattle, 2008

Guillaume Kayacan / Photographer Diane Arbus Born in a wealthy family, Diane Arbus decides, from a young age, to escape it the best she could. She thus marries a photographer, Allan Arbus, at 18 years old and both found a studio, managing to make a living when working for such magazines as Vogue or Glamour. Yet it is only at 38, after having been left by her husband that she dedicates herself to her personal work. In 1967, thirty of her photographs are presented at the New York MoMA alongside Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand in a now legendary exhibition, New Documents, that changes the face of documentary photography. It was Lisette Model with whom she had studied who had encouraged the American photographer to depict the unusual, the taboo and the bizarre.

Pierre Gonnord, Retratos Intemporales. | el Blog de Iván Vega Hoy comienzo con una nueva serie de artículos cortos que irá creciendo poco a poco y en el que quiero compartir el trabajo de fotógrafos que me inspiran y que forman parte de mi imaginario. Fotógrafos que en algún momento han influenciado con su obra en mi desarrollo como fotógrafo y persona. Pierre Gonnord nació en Cholet, (Francia) en 1963 y reside en Madrid desde 1988. Se define como un vividor, persona que vive la vida y no como un artista. Pierre Gonnord all rights reserved Siempre ha centrado su interés en retratar a desfavorecidos y a etnias, especialmente a los gitanos. Esta manera de presentar su trabajo le han hecho ganarse comparaciones con artistas de la talla de pintores como Velázquez y Rembrandt. En sus retratos no importa realmente el “cuando” se hicieron si no el “quien” aparece, y eso lo convierte en un serio aspirante a convertirse en un trabajo intemporal. Fuentes:

El grotesco y controvertido erotismo de Jan Saudek - Cultura Inquieta A través de la fotografía ha liberado su delirio, sus indignaciones, sus fetichismos. Sus fotografías en blanco y negro (las cuales empezó a colorear a mano en 1977) son de un erotismo grotesco e inquietante.

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